From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 11 19:01:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DFA916A4DE for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:01:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from outi@bytephobia.de) Received: from dd2626.kasserver.com (dd2626.kasserver.com [81.209.184.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECFC943D76 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:01:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from outi@bytephobia.de) Received: from [10.1.0.2] (pD9E36D70.dip.t-dialin.net [217.227.109.112]) by dd2626.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1FB8A558F; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:01:17 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <44B3F577.9090101@bytephobia.de> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:01:11 +0200 From: Patrick Hurrelmann User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060610) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Warner Losh" References: <20060711.104708.1159134898.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20060711.104708.1159134898.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell laptops X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:01:20 -0000 M. Warner Losh wrote: > Greetings, > > What are the current problems, if any, on current Dell laptops have > with FreeBSD? > > Warner Hi Warner, I really like Dells. Especially the Latitude-series. Personally I run FreeBSD on a Latitude D600 since 5.1-CURRENT. All works like a charm, except ACPI suspend/resume and the Broadcom WLAN. It was exchanged by a ath-card some years ago. At work I have my hands on several Latitude D610, but I never managed to try FreeBSD on them. But I have good reports from FreeBSD-users. Since some weeks I own a Latitude D620 (DualCore) and it really rocks, altough some things don't work atm. ACPI suspend/resume doesn't work at all like usual. Intel 3945ABG WLAN (even NDIS fails) and Intel HDA audio are unsupported (patches from multimedia@ won't build) at the moment. I did not test hotkeys till know. Xorg works like a charm, too. I chose the embedded nVidia Quadro graphics card :) Some other glitches: - Gigabit nic (bge) only works with a patch, but it still gets firmware handshake timeouts (see current@) - SATA needs patch with updated PCI-IDs - usb (UHCI) also needs patch with updated PCI-IDs But the overall performance, design and handling rocks on this one. I can highly recommend this one. I'm very optimistic in getting it quite well supported in the near future. Patrick -- ==================================================================== Patrick Hurrelmann | "Programming today is a race between software Mannheim, Germany | engineers striving to build bigger and better | idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying outi@bytephobia.de | to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, www.bytephobia.de | the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X against HTML email & vCards / \